We got cooler weather Friday and some rain, close to a quarter of an inch here. It has helped with the fires and our air quality is and has been the best since we started getting the smoke from the Canadian fires in April, in the upper 20's to lower 30's. Our temperatures have been closer to normal in the lower 70's, with our average for this time of year being closer to 60 F, for daytime highs. The elk fire is now 48 percent contained the fish creek fire is a bit more contained they each have burned more than 80,000 acres apiece. I saw a small female coyote yesterday, she was about the size of a large red fox, and that's as big as she will ever get, not much for good fur yet, but looking better than summer fur. I think that I am going to like the Remington 260 well, I think they should have advertised it and the 280 more. I had an old 7mm Mauser when I was a kid and it was nearly the same as the Rem 280, the newer Creedmoor really doesn't have much over the 260 as far as I can tell at this time. At any rate rifles are like everything else in our lives we all have our favorites for what we are wanting to do at the time. I am well pleased with the 1911 that I made my way through with the help of Ed, they just feel good in my hand, and it doesn't seem to mind me using either hand as my dominate hand.